r/investing · 2020
Most-mentioned books in r/investing during 2020
This page ranks books by exact tracked mentions in r/investing within the published source unit for 2020. Counts come from the reconciled subreddit-by-month matrix; a source unit may be a bounded sample.
#1 The Intelligent Investor
Benjamin Graham
Benjamin Graham's 1949 framework for distinguishing investment from speculation, cited 100 times on Reddit by people still arguing whether it applies to today's markets.
#2 A Random Walk Down Wall Street
Burton G. Malkiel
Burton Malkiel's 50-year argument that you can't beat the market, backed by data, and Reddit's most-cited reason to stop stock-picking.
#3 Rich Dad Poor Dad
Robert T. Kiyosaki
Tracked Reddit references and selected source excerpts for Rich Dad Poor Dad.
#4 One Up on Wall Street
Peter Lynch
Peter Lynch's case that a regular investor spotting McDonald's or Apple before Wall Street can beat the pros — using nothing but their own shopping cart.
#5 Fooled by Randomness
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Nassim Taleb's argument that most successful traders are lucky, not skilled — told through trading floors, coin flips, and survivorship bias.
#6 The Little Book of Common Sense Investing
John C. Bogle
John Bogle's case for index funds in 200 pages: own the whole market, pay almost nothing, and wait — cited 262 times on Reddit and counting.
#7 The Millionaire Next Door
Thomas J. Stanley
A 1996 study of 1,000 American millionaires found they drove used cars, lived in modest houses, and got rich by spending less than they earned.
#8 The Richest Man in Babylon
George S. Clason
A 1926 book about a Babylonian merchant that r/Bogleheads still hands to newcomers because nothing else this short covers the basics this cleanly.
#9 Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits
Philip A. Fisher
Philip Fisher's 1958 growth-investing manual, where scuttlebutt due diligence and 15 questions about management replace balance-sheet ratios.
#10 I Will Teach You to Be Rich
Ramit Sethi
Ramit Sethi's personal finance system for people who hate budgeting: automate everything, ignore avocado toast, stop leaving money in savings accounts.
#11 Margin of Safety
Seth A. Klarman
Seth Klarman's out-of-print value investing manual: the book r/investing drops by name whenever a stock gets kicked out of the S&P 500.
#12 Security Analysis
Benjamin Graham
Benjamin Graham's 1936 manual for dissecting a balance sheet, now mostly cited as proof that the method he later disowned still has its uses.
#13 The Black Swan
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
A derivatives trader turns the logic of rare catastrophes against the financial models that pretend they don't exist.
#14 The Bogleheads' Guide to Investing
Taylor Larimore
The index-fund bible that turns 136 Reddit mentions into one repeatable answer: buy, hold, ignore the noise.
#15 The Four Pillars of Investing
William J. Bernstein
A neurologist-turned-portfolio-theorist explains why the financial services industry exists mainly to extract fees from you, then shows you four ways to stop it.
#16 Antifragile
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Taleb argues that volatility isn't a bug in economic systems but the mechanism by which they stay alive, using forests and recessions to make the case.
#17 Beating the Street
Peter Lynch
Peter Lynch tells a regular investor how he picked stocks at Fidelity Magellan — and why you probably can too.
#18 Mastering the Market Cycle
Howard Marks
Howard Marks teaches you to read where you are in the cycle so you know when to press and when to sit on your hands.
#19 The Little Book That Beats the Market
Joel Greenblatt
A formula-stock investing primer that r/investing drops into beginner reading lists and then rarely returns to.
#20 The Most Important Thing
Howard Marks
Howard Marks explains why the best investors underperform in bull markets and why that is the whole point.
#21 Too Big to Fail
Andrew Ross Sorkin
The hour-by-hour account of how Lehman collapsed, AIG got bailed out, and a handful of exhausted men in conference rooms decided who survived.
#22 When Genius Failed
Roger Lowenstein
The story of how a hedge fund stacked with Nobel laureates and ex-Salomon bond traders turned a $4 billion bet on convergence into the near-collapse of global credit markets.
#23 Winning the Loser's Game
Charles D. Ellis
Charles Ellis argues that active stock-picking is a game professional managers reliably lose, and that ordinary investors win by refusing to play.
#24 Flash Boys
Michael Lewis
Michael Lewis follows a band of Wall Street rebels who discover that high-frequency traders are front-running every order placed by ordinary investors.
#25 Millionaire Teacher
Andrew Hallam
A teacher who retired early on a modest salary explains index investing in nine rules, with a detour through used-car negotiation tactics.